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Spell Bee Word: Snowboarding


What does snowboarding mean?

Word: Snowboarding

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Snowboarding means the winter sport of sliding down a mountain slope while standing sideways on a single wide plank fixed to both feet.

How do you spell snowboarding?

Syllables: snow - board - ing

Tricky part: It is written as one word, with no gap and no hyphen, even though it is built from two shorter words and an ending.

Watch out for: snowboading, snobording

Memory tip: Write it in one go, with no space and no hyphen: a snowboarder never stops halfway down the slope.

Snowboarding in a sentence

Example 1: Snowboarding looks easy, but keeping balance is hard.

Example 2: Aditi saw snowboarding for the first time in Manali.

Example 3: He wore thick gloves for snowboarding.

Fun Fact

Snowboarding joined the Olympic Games in 1998, at Nagano in Japan.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) snowboarding
b) snowbaording
c) snowbourding
d) snowbording

Show answer

a) snowboarding. Board is spelt oa, as in boat, so only snowboarding is right.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) skateboarding
b) gymnastics
c) snoboarding
d) mountaineering

Show answer

c) snoboarding. Snow keeps its w even inside a longer word; the other three are correct.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

snowboardding

a) d
b) w
c) o
d) n

Show answer

a) d. Board ends in a single d, and ing is added straight after it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gindrawbosno

a) snowboarding
b) sonwboarding
c) snowbroading
d) snowboardign

Show answer

a) snowboarding. Snowbroading, sonwboarding and snowboardign each swap two letters; only snowboarding has snow, board and ing in order.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which season is best for snowboarding in Manali?

a) summer
b) autumn
c) winter
d) monsoon

Show answer

c) winter

2. Which of these sports is most like snowboarding, but done on water?

a) swimming
b) surfing
c) rowing
d) diving

Show answer

b) surfing

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Next steps

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